Chicksands Bedfordshire Family History Guide

CHICKSANDS (formerly extra parochial) is now a parish, distant a mile and a half north west from Shefford, and 40 miles from London by rail, in the hundred and union and county court district of Biggleswade1.

Alternative names: Chicksands Priory

The area is returned with Shefford Hardwicke, and the population in 1861 was 77.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

CHICKSANDS-PRIORY, an extra-parochial tract in Biggleswade district, Beds; on the river Ivel, near the Midland railway, 1 ¾ mile WNW of Shefford. Acres, 2,120. Real property, £2,122. Pop., 77. Houses, 10. The mansion of Chicksands Priory here, the seat of Sir G. Osborne, Bart., includes considerable part of the buildings of a priory, founded about 1150 by Pain de Beauchamp; and contains James I.’s bed, and a portrait of Cromwell by Lely.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72]

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Chicksands, 1 m. Shefford. P. 60.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Bedfordshire, Chicksands-Priory – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Chicksands Priory, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Bedfordshire, Chicksands-Priory – History ( 1 )
Historical and topographical of Bedfordshire : containing Bedford, Ampthill, Houghton, Luton, and Chicksands
Author: Parry, I. D.

England, Bedfordshire, Chicksands-Priory – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Chicksands, 1797-1832
Author: Bedfordshire (England). County Council

Directories

The Post Office Directory of Bedfordshire 1869

CHICKSANDS (formerly extra parochial) is now a parish, distant a mile and a half north west from Shefford, and 40 miles from London by rail, in the hundred and union and county court district of Biggleswade.

Osborn Sir George Robert bart

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Mossman James farmer
Mossman James jun farmer Chicksands Lodge farm

Source: The Post office directory of Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, and Oxfordshire By Kelly’s directories, ltd 1869

Administration

  • County: Bedfordshire
  • Civil Registration District: Biggleswade
  • Probate Court: Search the courts of the surrounding parishes
  • Diocese: Not Applicable
  • Rural Deanery: Not Applicable
  • Poor Law Union: Biggleswade
  • Hundred: Clifton
  • Province: Canterbury
Footnotes
  1. The Post office directory of Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, and Oxfordshire By Kelly’s directories, ltd 1869 ↩︎